illiteracy

India tolerated dissent, but it also tolerated inefficiency, disease and illiteracy.

印度容许异议，但同时它也容忍了无能、疾病与文盲。

Tackling corruption would be the fastest way to address problems like poverty, disease, and illiteracy, he contended.

他认为，反腐败可能是解决诸如贫困、疾病和文盲等问题的最快途径。

This great institution must work for great purposes -- to free people from tyranny and violence, hunger and disease, illiteracy and ignorance, and poverty and despair.

这个伟大的机构必须努力达到伟大的目的──使人们摆脱暴政与暴力、饥饿与疾病、文盲与愚昧、贫困与绝望。